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Journey To Uri
"Okay, we are here." Kelli said, under a tree in the park, looking up at the shimmering door. Vash rubbed his hands greedily.
"What?" Rene asked. "Are you hungry? I have food." Rene started pulling out bread and jams and everyone stared at her. "What?" She asked.
"Rene, you aren't going to carry all that into Uri, are you?" Kelli asked.
"Of course I am!"
"How are you going to battle?"
"Well, I, um, uh." Rene stuttered.
"Here, I have an idea." Vash said. "We'll all be hungry on the way, so let's eat some now and keep the rest in our pockets. There is no way we can carry the basket around."
"Oh, all right." Rene said, spreading out a picnic blanket. The moon rose high ahead and an owl hooted.
"Twenty more minutes." Anora said from above a tree. The door was becoming more and more visible.
"I can't believe that Nakita was fake." Snowy said.
"Huh, what, did I miss something?" Kero asked. Cherry was lying in my arms, limp. She missed Nakita. Kanari filled Kero in.
"Oh, man." Kero said.
"This is the moment we've all been waiting for." Kelli said after everyone had eaten and stashed food into their pockets. The door opened slowly. The dreaded door of the Fourth Dimension.
"Let's go." Vash took a mighty jump and jumped as high as the treetops. He then took another one and jumped through the darkness of the door. Wings extended, streaking like a bullet, Kanari, Kelli, Rene, Snowy, and I followed. Liz hung on to Rene's broomstick, which she had held out for Liz. Doughboy and his bubble slowly rose. Kero flew in on my shoulder, Anora on Kelli's, and I was holding the frightened Cherry.
Darkness filled up. There was nothing to see, nothing to mind. The door closed behind Doughboy. Anora jumped off of Kelli, sprouted her wings and flew, flew like the wind, as fast as she could.
"Why do we always have to go this fast?" Doughboy asked. He was in his bubble, running, so that the pace of his bubble sped up to keep at the same pace the rest of us were going with our wings.
"This is fun." Liz said, hanging onto Rene's broomstick.
"Hang on tight." Vash said, who was also hanging on. He didn't have any wings. "If we let go, we fly out to nowhere." Snowy was helping Rene pull.
"Don't worry." Kanari said. "If you fly out, Yuki and I will be here to catch you!"
"Yeah." I agreed. "Hurry up Doughboy!" Doughboy grunted and tried to run faster.
"There's something up ahead." Anora informed us. She had sonar power.
"Something that shouldn't be up there?" Kelli asked. "Slow down the pace!" We tried to slow down, but we had built so much momentum that it was hard to slow down. Then we saw it.
"Nakita!" Vash said. "Fake Nakita!" Fake Nakita threw herself in front of Snowy and Rene, causing the broomstick to swerve.
"Ah!" Liz let go, and tumbled through space. She was drifting away at a very fast pace.
"Gotcha!" Kanari said, grabbing her arm and trying to pull her back towards the rest of the group. It was hard work. The same thing happened with Vash, only Kelli managed to stop him.
Fake Nakita came up to me.
"Cherry!" She said, trying to pick Cherry up. Cherry squealed and I held her away.
"We know who you are." I said.
"I can't believe you would try to go on without me."
"You aren't the real Nakita!" Kanari screamed loudly, causing everyone to jump. "If you were, you wouldn't act like this. If you were, you wouldn't have followed us here. You may have Nakita's memories, but you will NEVER be the real Nakita! Even Cherry here knows that you aren't real. So don't even try it!"
The Fake Nakita realized her mistake and turned to flee back to Uri to notify her staff. Not a chance. We had already formed a circle around her.
"We must destroy you." Vash said.
"Would you?" Fake Nakita asked. She unhooked something behind her ears. Kanari screamed as the whole Nakita face came off and something with a very pale face and long nose was exposed.
"Ew!" The rest of the girls said. The "monster lady" chucked her mast at one of the girls, which just happened to be Rene.
"AH!" Rene called. Vash ran in front of her and snatched it away.
"Ooh." Anora said. "Listen, we have to kill her and fast. The door to Uri has just been opened."
"By whom?" Kelli asked.
"By me." Anora said. "All I'm saying is that it can be opened now. This monster has two purposes. She'll get one if not the other. She will notify her staff or make us miss the way back."
"How about we split into two?" I asked.
"That would work." Snowy said. "A pretty good idea."
"I have a bad feeling about this."
"All of you go ahead!" Vash said. "I need to finish up some business here."
"Do you know her Vash?" Kelli asked.
"Don't you?" Vash asked. "Sure, she used to be prettier when we were little, but she's not all that bad now."
"Who is she?" Kelli asked.
"Lair, Daughter of the Earl of Gauds Land." Vash said. "She came and visited for a party when we were little, remember? No, I don't think you would, but I used to play with her all the time."
"I remember." Kelli said.
"How close are we to the door?" Liz asked.
"Especially close." Anora. "It would be such a pity to miss it twice."
"Ooh, get this over with!"
"Atomic Shock!" Vash said.
"Lady's Breath!" Lair sent a stream of black and blue blossoms flying at Vash.
"Watch out!" Kelli said.
"Golden Rings!" Rene fried many of the dark blossoms.
"Sun beam!" Kanari held up her sun ornament, tapped it twice, and threw it up into the air. All the blossoms were suddenly gone. The Atomic Shock had gotten rid of the remaining blossoms and paralyzed Lair waist down. She cursed at them.
"Avido!" Ribbons shot out of Snowy's wand and wrapped themselves around Lair and tied themselves in a tight knot. She fell down.
"See? These ribbons aren't only for decoration!" Snowy said cheerfully, trying to get everyone's spirits up.
"Kill her off." Kelli said.
"I can't." Vash said.
"Why not?" Kelli asked.
"Because she used to be my best friend."
"She's evil." Kelli said.
"Yes, I know."

"Someone else do it." Liz closed her eyes (it was okay, since Lair couldn't move) and plunged the sword towards her. There came a gushing noise and blood seemed to spew everywhere. Everyone ducked as Liz drew out the rapier and wiped it in the air. Blood droplets seemed to stay in the air.
There was a howling noise.
"Wind?" Rene asked.
"C'mon, there isn't much time left!" Anora called urgently. Everyone got back into their original positions, only this time Kanari and I both took one of Doughboy's hands and pulled him. It was much faster. The door was already shrinking when we tried to get through. Fortunately, we all made it.
And then, suddenly, we were zapping through the tunnel that we had seen earlier. The walls seemed to glow in hieroglyphics, except they were nothing like hieroglyphics, only another programmed code.
"In this tunnel, you can change the whole path of the universe." Vash called.
"How?" Snowy asked.
"Well, one person can make a difference, just as one world can. If Uri disappears, it can upset the balance." Vash said. "There is also one to stop the suction of this tunnel to the other end. But until someone finds out how to remove the one with the suction, the course cannot be changed, since we are constantly moving towards Uri."
"I see!" Snowy called.
"What if I tried to go up and wipe one off the roof of the tunnel?" Kanari asked.
"You'll find it's not possible." Vash said. "Try it!" Kanari flapped her wings furiously, but it didn't help her move up any.
"You are centered to the center of the tunnel." Kelli informed us.
"Oh, okay, I see!" Kanari said. "Hey, is it just me or are we speeding up?"
"Speeding up." Rene said, clutching the side of her head and her broomstick at the same time.
"I know." I said in a groggy sort of voice. "This is like the time I went to Islands of Adventures with some friends and they made me go on the Spiderman roller coaster. I HATE roller coasters." Several sets of eyes turned to stare at me. "What? I do! They make me so sick!"
"Um, okay." Doughboy said, edging away from me (which he couldn't do because he was centered). "Please don't throw up on me now."
We had reached the end of the tunnel.
"Whatever you do, don't say ANYTHING." Kelli said. Doughboy would've usually made a joke towards the anything, but the situation was so tense that he even didn't say anything.
Suddenly, out of darkness we appeared and fell into the light. And I mean literally fell, about fifty feet. When we looked around, I couldn't believe what I saw.
Mounds of sawdust, as tall as double my height. There was little light, dim, orange light that filled up the place. I looked to see where we had come from. A saw a little hole, like a drainage pipe.
"Quick, here!" Kelli pulled us into the shadows of the sawdust pile. I looked up at the hole again where we had fell through. "That's only one of the openings." Kelli said. "Uri rotates, like earth does, remember."
"Okay." I said. "We came through that one?"
"Yes." Vash said. "There's about five, and that was the only one connected to the Fourth Dimension today. But there is one specifically for rocket ships, by the queen's dome, and when they need to use ships, they go out of that one, out into orbit, and then circle back. This one is only large enough for the fattest man on earth."
"Doughboy, Kanari, and I were able to squeeze through in a three." I said. We were all talking in whispers, without knowing why. And then Rene pointed at something over the sawdust pile. We climbed halfway up the sawdust pile and lay down, just so eleven heads, including Anora. I gasped.
There were workers, chained up, and the queen's men, all dressed in uniforms of black with blue diagonal stripes, with big ruler like things, used to whip the workers.
"What are they doing?" Rene asked.
"Mining for gold and uranium." Vash answered. "Look at them work." It was very painful.
"Are we supposed to rescue those black guys too?" She meant the queen's men by black guys. Vash nodded.
"Look up there." He pointed. Far enough, right in front of us, a big mountain rose vertically, very vertically, and on the top, there was a dome. The Queen's dome, it must have been, however, you could see in it. There was a bright dim, yellow light inside it (where all the light comes in at night) and a bright white light, which looked like a diamond. "No bet on what that is." Vash said. "I've never seen that before."
"Nakita?" Snowy suggested.
"Maybe." Kelli said.
"Is it night or day?" Liz asked, looking up. "I can't tell, all I can see is a bunch of hazy yellow clouds."
"I'm not so sure." Vash said. "I've only been here a couple of times to the mines."
"Mines?" Doughboy gulped.
"Don't worry." Kelli said. "He means mining areas."
"Oh, okay." Doughboy said. "Go on."
"See up there?" Vash pointed up to the mountains. "It's larger than you think. I've lived up there my whole life."
"I have to say, its not a beautiful place." Kanari said, looking around.
"Maybe it is up there." I suggested.
"It is, blue skies, green grass, and you can tell if it's night or day." Vash said. "It's high enough above all the smog pollution."
"I'm already scared of this place." Rene said.
"Don't be." Vash said. "We're going to be staying here quite a while."
"We are?" I asked, worried.
"Yeah." Kelli said. "But first we need an inside guide."
"Guide?" Liz asked.
"We need to know what's been going on lately."
"Snatch a worker." Kanari suggested
"Likely they don't know anything." Vash said. "And it would cause a lot of commotion if we grabbed one of the Queen's men."
"We have got to get across to that dome without behind seen." Kelli said.
"Are you sure it's really big up there."
"Sure." Kelli said. "Lots of people live by the dome. The area on that plateau is about as big as one of your continents."
"I wonder how big this planet really is." Doughboy said.
"I guess." I said. "Are there any underground tunnels leading to the dome? Because I don't have my Illusion Card. It's still back home with Nakita."
Vash and Kelli looked at each other.
"Do they?" Vash asked.
"Do we is more like it." Kelli said. "Soon it will be do they." Vash shrugged.
"I think we do." He flipped through his pockets. "Let me see."
"Um, I just realized something." Snowy said. "If we're going stay here, how are we going to get back?"
"Huh?" Vash asked.
"I mean, many days here is a week on earth, right?" Snowy asked. Vash nodded. "And the door is closed now. So we'll probably have to wait a LONG time until we rescue all these workers and Nakita, and then LONGER to wait for the door to open again, since the time in this world travels at a faster rate."
"Not true." Vash said. "We can't come back to Uri at any time we want, but we can sure go to the Fourth Dimension all we want."
"How?" Snowy asked.
"Well, it's like this." Kelli explained. "Think of the Fourth Dimension as a round dome with only one door. Think of the worlds surrounding it. So you have a big circle and many little circles around it. Then each of the little circles has a door facing the big circle, and the big circle has only one door. The big circle moves, hence each little circle has a turn to let objects enter the bigger door, the Fourth Dimension." While she had been talking, Snowy had been drawing this in the sawdust pile.
"Okay, but Uri has more than one door." Snowy protested.
"And Uri rotates." Kelli finished. "The stars in the Fourth Dimension, the big circle, are used to navigate through the Fourth Dimension, the bigger circle."
"Um, okay." Rene said. "But then, would've we have to wait in the Fourth Dimension for the door to rotate around to Earth?"
"We didn't come through the same door when we went from Earth to the Fourth Dimension to Uri." Vash said. "Earth has a fixed door to the Fourth Dimension because Earth is the Third Dimension. Uri and all the smaller planets are in the Fifth Dimension."
"Does it ever rain here?" Kanari asked. Everyone turned to look at her. Doughboy held out a hand.
"Did you feel a raindrop?"
"No."
"Then what does this have to do with anything we're talking about?"
"Well, this is all so confusing."
"Yeah, but live with it." Doughboy said. "Want me to explain?" Kanari shook her head. "You'll never learn."
"I get it." Kanari said. "I just don't want to talk about it anymore."
"There's nothing more to talk about." Kelli said.
"Yeah." Vash agreed. "I've found the map of the underground." Kelli blinked.
"Where did you get that?"
"Remember when we used to visit Clay the Elder when we were eight or nine?" Vash asked. "And he really like us, was proud of us and our bravery to sneak out of the dome to visit us? Well, he gave me this map one day when you were learning Spanish. Look. There are ways to go to the dome. But there is a great possibility that many people are wandering here. See the purple lines? There are hidden passages that no one has ever known about. They just look like walls, but you can actually go through them. No one can see you as long as you stay inside the barrier. There are several openings to go to these passages. This one seems to be very near us. We have to get to that other sawdust pile and then it's right beside the wall."
"Vash, you're great!" Kelli said. "I'm so glad he gave it to us!"
"I hope he's still here so we can thank him." Vash said. "And hush, not so loud." We were basically still pretty isolated, the closest workmen was fifty yards away.
"We can try to make our way to that other sawdust pile." Rene said.
"And we had to come behind this one." Kelli said. "I'm sorry."
"We need a distraction." Snowy said.
"No, then everyone would get suspicious." Doughboy said. "What we need is a disguise."
"We could use my jacket." Rene said. "Or sweater, whatever you call it." She pulled it off. It was the color of the sawdust.
"I've got a quicker plan." Kelli said. "Help me spread sawdust between the two mounds, little by little." The rest of us started to help by pulling a handful and placing it beside the big pile. The next second we had a small pile that we could crawl behind and not be seen.
"Excellent." Snowy said as the two mounds were connected. We crawled across behind the pile and looked back. "Doesn't that look suspicious?"
"Maybe so." Kelli said. She opened her mouth and made an o and said silently, Blow Hole and suddenly, the sawdust flattened itself. No one had seen.
"C'mon." Vash said, looking at the wall right behind the sawdust pile. "It's right here."
"But that's a brick wall." Liz said. Vash took her hand and pulled her in. The rest of us followed.
"Wow." We said.
"Be careful about talking." Vash said. "They can hear us. Just follow me and we'll be okay."
"Do they have cameras in here?" Kelli asked.
"Perhaps, but not in the 'hidden' passages." Vash said. "Look out there." Where the kids had entered, there was now what seemed to be a screen. "We can see out but they can't see in."
"Whoa, awesome." Doughboy said, quietly.
"That's how it's going to be when we cross passages." Vash said. It didn't look too much like a screen, on the second though, but like something covering it. More like looking from the inside of an illusion.
"What if a guy was walking here and accidentally walked into the wall?" Snowy asked. Doughboy snorted, but we all quickly shushed him.
"Sorry." He said.
"It used to be that he would go through, but not now." Vash said. "Clay the elder used his magic to ensure that if you don't know it's here and if you weren't meaning to get there, you won't come here. His elders discovered it by accident and that's why he has the map."
"Interesting." Rene said, biting into a piece of bread. She had spread out her food and was eating. Now that I thought of it, I was kind of hungry too. So we all sat down, ate, and then went on, following Vash.
"I really hope we can get Nakita back." He said.
"Yeah, me too." I said.

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